Dacica ("Dacian [matters]"), or De bello dacico ("On the Dacian War"), is a lost Latin work by Roman Emperor Trajan , written in the spirit of Julius Caesar 's commentaries like De Bello Gallico , and describing Trajan's campaigns in Dacia .
5-653: It is assumed to be based on Criton of Heraclea 's Getica , a work on the history of the Daco - Getae . Criton was Trajan's Greek chief physician and procurator , during the Dacian wars. Based on the research so far, Dacica is considered lost. However, one sentence survived in the Latin grammar work by Priscian . To describe a grammatical rule, Priscian cites Trajan: inde Berzobim, deinde Aizi processimus , meaning We then advanced to Berzobim, next to Aizi . The phrase describes
10-716: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Criton of Heraclea Criton of Heraclea ( Greek : Κρίτων , Latin : Titus Statilius Crito ) was a 2nd-century (c. 100 AD) Greek chief physician and procurator of Roman Emperor Trajan (98–117) in the campaign in Dacia . He is perhaps the Criton mentioned in Martial 's Epigrams . He wrote a work on Cosmetics in four books, which were very popular in Galen 's time and which contained almost all that had been written on
15-437: Is addressed. Criton also has a historical work, Getica , now lost about the history of Daco - Getae . Getica was at the basis of Trajan's own work, Dacica (or De bello dacico ), about his Dacian Wars , which is also lost. He is perhaps the author of a work on Cookery , mentioned by Athenaeus . None of his works seem to be extant, except a few fragments preserved by other authors. As Trajan's medic, Criton created
20-451: The initial penetration into Dacia by the Roman army. It also mentions two Dacian towns where later Roman castra were built: Berzovia and Aizis . This Dacia -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Ancient Rome –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a non-fiction book on history of Romania
25-405: The same subject by Heraclides of Tarentum , Cleopatra , and others. The contents of each chapter of the four books have been preserved by Galen, who frequently quotes from it. Criton wrote also a work on Simple Medicines of which the fourth book is quoted by Galen; he is also quoted by Aëtius and Paul of Aegina , and may perhaps be the person to whom one of the letters of Apollonius of Tyana
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